UNC-system President Margaret Spellings will be leaving her position, according to the News and Observer. The Board of Governors has called an emergency session "to consider an executive personnel matter" at 10 a.m. on Friday, according to BOG Director of Media Relations Jason Tyson.

Kenan Sr.'s son, William R. Kenan Jr. was the donor who made the gift, and the University is working with its History Task Force established in 2015 to focus on him instead of his father, who the gift was made in honor of, according to a statement released by Chancellor Carol Folt.